Game director Hideaki Itsuno wanted Nero to look like a “sports star at the top of their game, someone at their physical peak, who could seemingly take on anything” - that was the direction he gave to the team. So why did Capcom give Nero a haircut and a redesign? “Nero’s redesign came from a want to show Nero at his prime,” producer Matt Walker tells me. If you had watched the trailer carefully instead of rushing to write words on the internet, you would have realised this because of his signature weapon and the fact his arm wasn’t an actual arm. It turns out it’s not, though - it’s yer boy Nero, Dante’s nephew from Devil May Cry 4. You might have been a little confused about who the leading man was in the Devil May Cry 5 debut trailer (I definitely wasn’t, but you might have been) - especially since he looked so similar to Dante in his DmC incarnation.
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a Dante? Nope, it’s a Nero.
